Dear Negative Sense of Self, I keep coming back to you. Year after year, time after time. When I've let you go, just as quickly, I've come running back. You are my normal. You are reliable, infallible, and indefatigable. You are me, and I am you. I need you. I can't understand the world without you. And yet, someone has changed. It's me. I have changed. Your truth has become lies in my ears.Your embrace has become rejected by my heart.Your sincerity has become hollow in my life. I'm leaving you behind, just as you promised that others would leave me. You told me that I was ...
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Finding my power and purpose
My life changed this past 4th of July weekend. Last year I was waiting for my fiancé to come home and worrying about fireworks triggering my PTSD. This year, I was single, living with my parents, and devising an impulsive plot to take my life because I couldn't handle reality any longer. What a difference a year makes. Luckily, I wasn't successful in my suicide attempt. Instead, I gained perspective and learned much-needed life lessons. Before, I felt I had little going for me aside from the prospect of marriage. I was so excited and built my whole world around it. Here's ...
I am enough – Week 3 of Short Affirmations for anxiety
Last week's affirmation, "I am open and ready to receive" proved itself to be exactly what I needed. I was met with quite a few unexpected challenges throughout the week. It was enough to make me really put my affirmation to the test. The biggest challenge was getting into a small car accident. There were no injuries, thank goodness. My car suffered some damage, and it was a daunting task to ask, "How can I look at this situation positively? There's nothing positive about a car accident." Eventually, I stumbled upon it after pouting for fifteen minutes. I became grateful for what I had ...
Affirmation 1
I started this morning a little teary and downcast because my family is going its separate ways after the Thanksgiving holiday. I don't get to see them often, so I treasure those moments. But then I remembered that today is the start of my Weekly Affirmations. I chose an affirmation to focus on the possibilities of the present and future instead of living in the past, a habit that I need to break. Phone Wallpaper Something wonderful is about to happen to me. I'm putting this on a sticky note for my bathroom mirror, so it's the first thing I see each morning. I made a cute ...
Affirmations
I’m taking this category into a new direction as of this week. Although challenging myself to overcome anxiety has been rewarding, I want to test out positive affirmations as a new way to calm anxiety. Choosing to see the positive or reaffirming to myself that the world is a kind, loving, and generous place is another way for me to calm anxious thoughts and fears. Here’s the plan:Each week on Sunday, I’ll post the affirmation that I’m going to repeat to myself each morning. The following Saturday evening, we’ll see how it went in terms of changing my attitude and how much my anxiety was ...
